It seems to me that even the glitterati journalists from the Spectator can sometimes fall guilty of believing everything they read...
It goes to show that just because a remote publication on the other world says that something is true, it doesn't necessarily make it so.
Classic example yesterday. Press reports were coming in that the Taliban had shot down a pilotless US spy-plane. No retraction, however, when the subsequent report a few hours later stated that a Taliban officer had claimed that they had shot down an opposition helicopter...
Information travels so quickly now that there simply is no longer time to verify all the facts. In this climate, we should continue to take a skeptical view of everything we see and hear...
After all, wasn't it the US President, Bill Clinton, who said "I did not have sexual relations with that wooooman"? Subsequent information proved that claim to be incorrect...
Kind regards,
Hamish